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Impairment of motor skills in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in remote Australia: The Lililwan Project

This study investigated the relationship between motor skills, FASD and prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) in the Fitzroy Valley.
  • Publishing Date:

    11 February, 2016

  • Journal Name:

    Drug and Alcohol Review

  • Authors:

    Barbara R. Lucas, Robyn Doney, Jane Latimer, Rochelle E. Watkins, Tracey W. Tsang, Genevieve Hawkes, James P. Fitzpatrick, June Oscar, Maureen Carter, Elizabeth J. Elliott

Maternity-care: measuring women’s perceptions

The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of an instrument to assess women’s perception of their entire maternity-care experience. The scales produced from this research offer a means to assess maternity care across the full continuum of care and are brief and easy to use.
  • Publishing Date:

    8 February, 2016

  • Journal Name:

    International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

  • Authors:

    Kim Clark, Shelley E Beatty, Tracy Reibel

Women aren’t following advice to stop drinking when pregnant

This article highlights the fact that around 40% of Australian women drink while pregnant and 10% reported binge drinking. The authors conclude that advice about drinking and messages about the risk of FASD are not getting through to women in Australia.
  • Publishing Date:

    7 July, 2015

  • Journal Name:

    The Conversation

  • Authors:

    Sasha Petrova

Mental and Behavioral Disorders Due to Substance Abuse and Perinatal Outcomes: A Study Based on Linked Population Data in New South Wales, Australia

This study published in 2014 linked birth and hospital records in NSW, Australia. Subjects included primiparous mothers admitted to hospital for MBD due to use of alcohol, opioids or cannabinoids during peri-conception and pregnancy
  • Publishing Date:

    20 May, 2015

  • Journal Name:

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

  • Authors:

    Michelle R. Bonello, Fenglian Xu, Zhuoyang Li, Lucy Burns, Marie-Paule Austin and Elizabeth A. Sullivan

Paternal involvement in alcohol exposure during pre-conception and pregnancy

This overview of alcohol exposure and FASD provides nursing and midwifery professions with fundamental information about the condition.
  • Publishing Date:

    1 May, 2015

  • Journal Name:

    Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal

  • Authors:

    Nyanda McBride

The Preventable Disability

This report summarises the prevalence, social and economical impacts, management and prevention of FASD. It also reports on alcohol consumption and policy context within the Northern Territory.
  • Publishing Date:

    25 February, 2015

  • Authors:

    Legislative assembly of the Northern Territory - Select Committee on Action to Prevent FASD

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